The Republican journal., 1887-06-02
would have gone into Spanish hands.

| But now Coronado began to weary, and
| longcd for his wife and children; and despite
| back to the City of Mexico. There he received
| but cold welcome, and because he had failed
| to find the Golden Cities his province was
taken from him. and he died soon afterwards
| IN Obscurity. Two monks who went North
| with Coronado refused to return with him. but
remained among the Indians as missionaries.
| They were murdered III Il short time, as were
| also Il number of Franciscan Monks who later
went up that way. The disappearance of these
Priests led to the expedition of Espijo. who was
| sent to look them up: but he was glad to beat Il
hasty retreat, and thus those warkc tribes Of
the North saved the future United States from
greater trouble with the Spaniards.
Though the Mexican Indians used every cf-
| fort to keep secret the whereabouts of their
ancestral treasures. In course of years many
gold and silver mines of great richness We're
found. The instant mine was discovered.
the Spaniar.s - in whose hands the cross be-
came always symbol of wrath and cruelty
developed great >oicudc for the souls Of the
| nci@hhoring natives. and proceeded to ''chris-
tianiZc" them after their own peculiar fashion.
Not only We're the cn>avcd Indians compelled
to IIurcquitel toll, but were Sc grievouSly
whipped. burned. set upon by dogs, and other
wise so gricvouSly maltrcatcd that five times
| between the years 1910 and 1850 they planned
to cNtcrininatc the hated Spaniards. Each
time their plans were frustrated and their con-
dlion rendered worse, if possible. than before :;
until in lt;S0. when, goaded to frcnsy, the In
lian> arose in
A GRAND REVOLT
and succeeded in driving their conIucrors out
of that portion OF Mexico. Then. fearful of Il
return of the foe, they carefully destroyed
every vc>tigc of their former settlements.
closed the entrance to the mines and abandon
ed the ncighborhood. And t. this day-unless
Lieutenant Flipper has found it-nobody can
tell the location of that once famous Ei Dorado.
Whether the seven golden cities of antiquity
were myth or reality, the prospects for sub
>tanti;il prosperity i'll Northern Mexico were
| never so bright as now. Instead of fabulous
walls of FURNISHED gold studded with precious
stones. there will be miles of golden grain,
starred with blossoming fruit trees and inter-
>i'rrscd with vegetable fields; while cattle on Il
thousand hills. homes of industry, the whirr
Of machinery and hum Of busy towns give life
10 the one" silent deserts.
within the last two wears. millions OF acres
of the best land in all Monezuma>' country
has passed into the hands of American SyndI-
catcs-a sufficient guarantee that they will not
long be lett in dcncss. Besides the Chicago
company. with which Flppcr is con>pic-
ously identified, a syndicate of Connecticut
millionairrs has purchased 100000 acres in
sonora and chihuahua, for grazing and agri-
cultural PURPOSES. Included In the five million
acres owned hy the Chicago company-whirh
lies in the States of Coahuila. chihuahua and
nuranyo-i> more than Il million acres of the
finest cotton land in the world. 1t is the ccc
brated Laguna district. which is annually over
flowed like the Nile region. 1t is trayer>cd by
the Mexican Central 4 International railroads.
and is of easy access to all the Mexican sea-
ports. New York, san Francisco. etc.
In the western portion OF Chhuahlia, adj
joining the Older
MORMON COLONY.
Il number of UtaLanS. Disguised by the state
of things brought about by the Federal gov
crnmcnt at home. have lately bought !350OO
acres of magnificent agricultural land. 1t does
not require the eye of Il prophet to guess what
these d>gruntlc'l saints propose doing in their
ieW domain.
Nor must the Yankee sociai>tic colony on
the Sinaloa coast he forgotten. On the i'm
mense tract reded TO them 10y the Mexican
government. the first crops are now thriftilv
growing. and substantial buildings are rapidly
going up. several hundred Americans have
c"m" 10 stay in their ''city by the sea" while
hundreds more are only waiting permission
from the leader, Col. \. X. owen. to transfer
their household goods to the land OF promise.
Some >tartlin. stories have been widely cir
c,ilated in the I :. concerning this colony-of
sickness. mHtnIic dN l,0ys, starvation and dis
appointment. That most of these tales are
entirely untrue. invented hy a few ''black
sheep" of the fuld-who thought to find Il
when if came to working for living we
have positive proof. The nearly five hundred
roloni-t> now On the ground are as happy and
enthusiastic Is ever; and so far from '>cratch-
ln- around trying to get money enough to
come home witli"-a> some newspapers have
lately aflirmed-tlic truih is that all declare
themselves charmed with the actual life in
their new home and have no disposition to re-
turn to the United States. However. your
respondent will soon visit the spot and we
will investigate the Topolobampo plan for our
selves.
One of the Stran%est things in connection
with the recent earthquake shocks in Arizona
and Northern Mexico was the restoring of
copiou> supplies of water to river beds which
have been dry rs dust since the memory of
man. In many portions of the shaken country
We're what is called ',ry streams" meaning
empty gulchcs, which suddenly become raging
| torrents during the rainy season. Sometimes
in Il single night these trcarhcrOus baTrdHcuS
are transformed from arid crcvasscs into ugly
cataract>; and railroad bridges, under which
not Il drop of water had been seen for months,
have been swept away between the passage
of two trains.
Since these beds were once running streams.
which were turned dry, perhaps ages ago, by
some seismic disturbance, it is generally be-
lieved that, as they have Eow been relilled bv
the same agency, they may remain ''living"
streams. In that case. terrible the recent
earthquake was. it will prove an ncalculablc
blessing. since the many gulchcs now filled
with pure, cold water (Which were dry as
powder an hour before the shaking-up) will
transform millions of barren acres into excel
lent pastlIragc.
The Nayijo Indians, who own immense
herds of horses. sheep and cattle, We're the
greatest sufferers. Being intensely >upersti-
tious, they We're frightened completely out of
their >canty stock of wits. AT the first shock.
they threw themselves flat on the ground, and
| afterwards hllded like sheep in their mi>cr-
able jdcniS. refusing to come out until almost
dead with hunger.
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